Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer reading requirements!

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!